"There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love."

-- Edward Abbey

“The young dont know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”
“Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.”
“Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.”
“There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.”
“I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.”

Source : "CNN Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.
“Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.”
“The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.”

Source : "Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs".
“I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.”

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